Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-12
Seven Cars TasSeopsd Be- 0OlliSOn-Ths Dsadll
Car Ss5ys-HUribls Scenes About the Wreck
Ten Dead Bedies Taken From the Rims
Hsart-Rsnding Experiences

The catastrophe occurred AT hOuts, d
small station ffty-fve miles from Chicago.
II is inferred that the fated train was the
passenger express from the East, due in
Chicago this morning. A relief expedition
was quickly and secretly organized by the
railroad officials here and dispatched TO the
scene. Other help was TO be hurried for
ward a. soon as possible.
Two passenger trains arrived in Chicago
early in the morning from the East. 1t Is
not known which was involved, the officials
refus NJ the slightest scrap of information,
As nearly as can he judged, the horror oc
CURED between two and SIX o'clock this
morning. A telegram received at ll:35 a
In. said that ten dead bodies
had been taken from the wreck, and the
men conducting the ghastly work were un'
able TO say how many other oorpSes were
still in the debris.
In addition 10 the killed, the telegram
says a list has been prepared showing the
injured TO the number Of at least twentv-
one persons.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A special from Hammond, Ind, says:
The passenger train, eastbound on the Chi
cago and Atlantic Railway, leaving Ham
mOnd at Sis last night, broke down near
Kout's station.
The engine started ahead, leaving the
train and stopped tor water at State switch.
The engine got Oh the center and could
not get back TO the train. A stock train
folluwing, running on special time, crash
ed into the sleeper, telescoping the sleeper
and four coaches.
So far fourteen bodies have been taken
from the wreck. A doctor from Hunting
ton, Ind, is the only passenger identified.
The rest are burned beyond recognition.
Twenty-Five or thirty are wounded. The
engineer and fireman OF the stock train
were badly hurt and are not expected to
live.
An indianapolis dispatch says: Adyices
from the scene of the wreck on the Chicago
and Atlantic Railroad are meagre. The
train that was teleScOped had stopped for
the Panhandle crossing, when a fist
freight dashed into the rear. The passen-
ger train was the express due in Chicago
at o'clock, and the accident occurred at
4 O'Clock. Seven cars in all are said 10
have been consumed by fire, including a
Pullman sleeper. Fifteen persons were
killed and the same number injured.
hn no l.
fated train, arrived in Chicago this after
noon. One of them, gentleman from
Taunton, Mass, who was on his way home,
was sitting in the first car asleep with his
head on his satchel.
THE first | knew | heard frightful
crash, and the car seemed shattered, and
the pillows were dyi < pastme. The next
knew found myself almost
BURIED IN RUINS,
and they seemed to keep piling up. ltried
TO extricate myself and found was near a
window. 1t was all dark and all around
were yells and groans, and the blackness
made it fearful. | didn't seem
to be hurt, beyond being shaken up,
so | called for help out Of the window.
Some man helped me out and then turned
in and helped TO get Others out. A little
while after got out the whole thing took
fire, and We were forced to give up, work
ing on il bit by bit At one place there
were two or three women apparently all
together, opd we tried TO get them out.
They were shriekirQ all the time III man.
ner 20 freeze ones blood, for the fire was
% al ha
worked As long as We could, but could not
get them out, and the lire came all around
and finally silenced their screams. To
hear their desperate cries as the flames
nearer and nearer Came and finally reached
them was simply appalling. The wreck
burned 10 the trucks, no facilities being at
hand TO eXtiDguiSa the fire. A carload Oi
the injuned was taken east from the
wreck this afternoon. They were manned
bruised and hurnrd, some quite hadly.'
Vim. Gaghenyan, the conductor of the
Chicago, ST. Louis and Plttsburg construc
tion train, now working between Houts and
Hebron, small station ten miles west oi
Kouis, saw something of the result of the
accident. His train runs into kOuts every
evening with its load of tired workmen
and the conductor sleeps in the one little
hotel OF which the town boasts. He was
awakened at o'clock this morning TO take
out Wabash train that had been delayed
by the wreck. Upon going down stairs, ii
the hotel be found all confusion. In the
little parlOr boy about fifteen years old
was stretched upon the floor literally man
gled and torn to pieces, with Just enough
life in him 10 speak.
IN FAINT WHISPERS
to those who asked him about the accident
In the room off the parlor another boy wa
| lying with serious bruises about the head
In one OF the upper rooms he learned tn,
engineer of the wrecked meat train wa
lying, almost at the point Of death. s.
hideOus were these sights and 50 piteOu:
were the cries Of anguish which were to b
heard on all sides. that the sturdy cOnduc
tor could eat nothing, and hurried to hl
duties, glad to escape such scene.
In the little sitting room of the cottage
which serves as a hotel in this town
two of the wounded survivors o
the accident srill remained lat'
this afternoon. Herman Miller, BOhe
mian boy on his way from Dundee, Ills
20 the old country is stretched on tht
lounge in the low dark room. His head
fearfully battered and his right leg /
fractured. The other wounded man L
Joseph McCool, = bar tender Of Boston
who. had he not been passenger on tn
fated train, would have been welcomed II
Chicago by his relatives, whom he has no
seen for years. His injuries are, for tn
most part, internal, and are not 50 sever
but that his recovery is possible. He wa
able to tell ofthe occurrence as follows:
II was in the passenger cOsch whiel
was next TO the last car in the train. Jus
before midnight went into the smoker
which was Just ahead Of our car and chat
ted for an hour and came back to tn
coach with a young man who sat dow
near me. That is the last I've seen O
expect to see of that poor fellow. Just a
had stretched myself to 60 to sleep, AM
almost before had closed my eyes, ther
WAS AN AWFUL CRASH,
which God help me / never want to hea
again. could feel myself thrown violent